Fundamental forces that govern human existence

Take a look at the presentation below before we talk about what I am about to say on the topic. ...(not for the faint hearted)



(*note: I got this presentation by email and assume this to be a public property. So I am not providing any reference to the source but also not abusing it)

I got this by a forwarded email and like any sensible person was really disturbed so much so that I almost cried and got into depression for a while. There can be no better example of where some of our own makings (like money, religion, etc.) got us into. It also got me into asking more deeper questions. If we human beings could serve such pathetic (to put it really really modestly) conditions to our fellow human beings and continue to coexist what then really drives the human existence. What really are the fundamental forces that govern the human existence? I really could not fathom fully. But here is my attempt at answering that question. For the discussion, I would define any fundamental force (FF) is something that is absolutely essential to the very existence of something else say a system. So if the system is deprived of its FF, it should completely breakdown to the point where there is no meaning to the existence of system. Confusing? I am getting there. Lets consider three things,
1. Food (basic food required to sustain daily life)
2. Love (Not of romantic kind, just something that means human interactions/companionship)
3. Religion (nothing specific)

Our daily existence seem to have at least these three in varying proportions. So, we tend to think that all of them are driving our existence. But I beg to differ. Lets say we deprive someone completely of religion but with availability to food and love. I am sure that person is not going to go mad. He/she may still continue to exist and may even make a very good human being. Now lets deprive of the same person of food. I am sure the person is going to break down sooner than later. It is bound to break the whole human spirit into pieces and the human thing in him/her will have no meaning eventually. Deprivation of love/companionship will break the person's spirit to an extent but not completely. I see food and religion on these two extremes where one (food) is absolutely necessary to hold the very existence of human spirit while the other (religion) at best is a practice which you can embrace provided your basic needs (food) to hold the spirit is met. So I got my answer (at least I am satisfied with it). Religion is not something that is really essential to our existence and certainly doesnt mean anything to those kids who drag their last drop of soul to the source of food in the above presentation. After seeing this, I promised myself that I would certainly respect food in many ways as I can and will never let religion stand in my way of doing good. On a passing note, for whatever reasons religions are invented, increasingly there is more harm done in their name than good.